On January 19, the WTT Macau Championship, Chen Meng met his old rival, Du Kaixuan of Hong Kong, China, in the first round of the quarterfinals.
Du Kaixuan in the Tokyo Olympic Games frightened everyone, won two consecutive sets, almost pulled down by Chen Meng, fortunately Chen Meng withstood the pressure to pull four consecutive sets, there is no danger.
In the finals of last year's WTT World Cup in Singapore, Du Kaixuan defeated the new World Table Tennis Champion Wang Manyu 3-0, breaking a big upset. Du Kaixuan has grown into one of the main opponents of the national table tennis women's team.
In the first set, Chen Meng started 3-0, and in the case of a 5-1 lead, he was chased to a 7-7 draw, and finally won the game 11-8.
In the second set, the two sides fell into a battle, 5-5, Chen Meng connected the service error, was pulled by the opponent to score, Du Kaixuan 10-6 to get the set point, in 10-7 chose to call a timeout.
When the timeout came back, Chen Meng was again another serve directly out of bounds, giving the opponent the winning point, Du Kaixuan pulled back a set 11-7, and the two sides fought 1:1.
In the third set, Chen Meng only had a one- or two-point lead in the first half of the inning, and in the second half of the inning, Du Kaixuan made a series of serve errors, Chen Meng extended his lead 9-5, and won 4 innings points 10-6. Chen Meng's own serve wheel, smashed the high ball and lost, Du Kaixuan chased 2 innings in a row, and Marlene decisively called a timeout.
But the suspension came back, Du Kaixuan's serve wheel, Chen Meng was not in place to receive the serve, was continuously started by the opponent, Du Kaixuan chased 4 innings in a row, and the two sides fought to a 10-10 draw. Fortunately, in the end, Chen Meng scored 2 consecutive points to win the key set 12-10, leading 2:1.
In the fourth set, Du Kaixuan kept leading, leading by 3 points at 9-6. Chen Meng broke the opponent's serve wheel to tie the score at 9-9. Chen Meng served the ball to the opponent's small triangle in the forehand position, and the result was directly twisted by Du Kaixuan to score, and Du Kaixuan got the set point 10-9; fortunately, the second serve was won, and the two sides fought 10-10. After that, Du Kaixuan took 2 more innings and finally won the game 13-11, and the two sides scored a big score of 2:2.
In the decider, Chen Meng's status was online, 7-1, 11-2 strongly won, and finally defeated Du Kaixuan 3:2 to advance to the women's singles quarterfinals.
Du Kaixuan's serve, as well as the quick return of the ball, really put a lot of pressure on Chen Meng. However, Chen Meng let go of the fight, but he could still calm her.